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Are CEOs Born Leaders? Lessons from Traits of a Million Individuals
Adams, Renee B. - 2017
What makes a successful CEO? We combine a near-exhaustive sample of CEOs of Swedish companies with data on their cognitive and non-cognitive ability and height at age 18. CEOs differ from other high-skill professions most in non-cognitive ability. The median large-company CEO belongs to the top...
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Equal opportunity? : gender gaps in CEO appointments and executive pay
Keloharju, Matti; Knüpfer, Samuli; Tåg, Joacim - 2016
We use exceptionally rich data on all business, economics, and engineering graduates in Sweden to study women's career …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011626552
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The Effect of Tax Treaties on Multinational Firms : New Evidence from Microdata
Davies, Ronald B. - 2011
This paper uses affiliate level data from Swedish multinationals to examine the impact of tax treaties on both overall affiliate sales and the composition of those sales. In line with previous results, we find little evidence for an effect of treaties on the level of total sales. We do, however,...
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Is There Really a Foreign Ownership Wage Premium? Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data
Heyman, Fredrik - 2011
Numerous studies on firm-level data have reported higher average wages in foreign-owned firms than in domestically-owned firms. This, however, does not necessarily imply that the individual worker's wage increase with foreign ownership. Using detailed matched employer-employee data on the entire...
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R&D in Swedish Multinational Corporations
Fors, Gunnar - 2020
Using unique data on Swedish multinational corporations (MNCs), this study investigates several dimensions relating to industrial R&D. The development in the latter part of the 1980s is emphasized. Between 1978 and 1990, R&D intensity of the Swedish MNCs almost doubled from about 2 to 4 percent....
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Domestic and Foreign Investment by Swedish Multinationals
Svensson, Roger - 2020
In the 1980s, there was a huge increase in the outflow of foreign direct investment from Sweden to the EC. The EC …
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Global Engagement and the Occupational Structure of Firms
Davidson, Carl; Heyman, Fredrik; Matusz, Steven J.; … - 2014
Engagement in foreign markets can have an impact on firm organization and on the type of occupations that a firm needs. We examine the effect of globalization on the occupational mix using detailed Swedish data that cover all firms and a representative sample of the labor force for 1997-2005. We...
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Characteristics and Performance of New Firms and Spinoffs in Sweden
Andersson, Martin - 2012
We analyze the rate of formation, the characteristics, and the performance of different types of new firms in Sweden … over a decade. Comparisons to Denmark, Brazil, and the U.S. suggest that the environment for new firm formation in Sweden …
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Globalization and Imperfect Labor Market Sorting
Davidson, Carl; Heyman, Fredrik; Matusz, Steven; … - 2010
industry and the role that globalization plays in that process. Using matched worker-firm data from Sweden, we find strong …
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The Evolution of Top Incomes in an Egalitarian Society; Sweden, 1903–2004
Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - 2006
This study presents new homogenous series of top income shares in Sweden over the period 1903-2004. We find that …. When included, Sweden's experience resembles that in the U.S. and the U.K. with sharp increases in top incomes. Excluding … capital gains, Sweden looks more like the continental European countries where top income shares have remained relatively …
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